Saturday errands

Okay, Jamie's new glasses were finally ready today. So we went up to Southlake to pick them up.

Later during my errands, looking at them, I'm afraid they're too tight - too narrow for his face. It looks like the temples are pressing in on the sides of his head. GAH. And of course by then they were already closed, they close at noon on Saturdays. So I'm expecting early next week I'm going to need to go back to Southlake and have them checked.

I took the kids to pick up catfood next - Maggie loves that, as she gets to see animals. They were doing an adoption day, so she got to see dogs, cats / kittens, birds, a sleeping hamster, and lotsa fish. The Southlake Petsmart actually has a horse section - probably about 1/6th of the store. Whee.

Then we went to Lowes to get the paint for Jamie's loft bed. Every time I go to Lowes I think I'll be okay - and then I end up miserable again. We really pinned it down when we were getting lumber for his bed - being down at the end where they're cutting all the wood made me miserable, my chest was too heavy and I was practically in a panic attack. The sawdust is awful, and I suspect the paints and other chemicals are just as bad. I had remembered the name of my paint color as "vibrant blue" and couldn't FIND it anywhere - and they looked it up and said it didn't exist. After much angst I found a color sample that had been hidden by some in the wrong slot, that had "vivid blue" and I decided it must have been that one, and got the paint and a few extra brushes. Karl's been finishing the last of the primer painting today. I hope we can get it all FINISHED soon.

I've been thinking, now that I have a whole gallon of that color paint - I do NOT want to do any more building projects, but I could probably handle a couple more painting projects. Maybe find someplace that does unfinished furniture - there's some kids' stuff at Michael's, but I'd like to find better - and do maybe a table and pair of chairs in a kid size, or a small bookcase, or dresser, or something like that, paint it in a matching color to the bed, and get more of the star Wallies and do up a little bedroom set for him. We'll see, I'll go google unfinished furniture in the area.

Then we went to the library, and then we went to chickfila for lunch. The one on Hulen was too crowded and noisy - the Lake Worth one was quiet, so that was okay. Now we're home. Whew.

Vivid blue paint progress

selenite and I just went out and painted for a while. Sixteen of the boards of Jamie's future loft bed are now painted blue on one half. (All the primer was completed, the last earlier today by selenite) There are seven that haven't gotten any blue yet.

It is possible we may want more than one coat of the blue paint. Still, feeling good about the progress. Maybe we'll do more later, but that's all we could comfortably lay out in the garage to work on at once.

The Armored Rose

My dear SCA friends - I need to find a Dewey Decimal number for The Armored Rose, ISBN 0-9669399-0-5. My usual sources did find it, but only with a Library of Congress number. This one, I know I am not going to be able to go to my local library for help with. Anyone know? Feel free to pass this around.

More library cataloging

As may have been obvious from my previous entry, we are working on cataloging more of our library into Readerware. Some time back we had a big work party and did just about all the fiction - there are still piles of "problem children" in each section of the alphabet, stuff without ISBNs that I have to manually enter. I've cleared those for the paperback A's, B's, and C's. Mostly tonight I'm working on adding in more of the nonfiction, which we'll be shelving by Dewey Decimal numbers.

I am enough of a book geek that it makes me VERY happy to be doing this. To me, this is getting the house more organized and under better control. Others may not see it that way - but selenite and I do, and we're happy together.

It's up to 1,457 so far.

It's rather interesting, seeing what comes by in non-fiction, the rather specialized books that selenite has. It can sometimes be pretty clear what belongs to whom. History of Warfare, and A Natural History of Love - not hard to figure out which is whose, is it?